Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XVIII - Road to 30

Whether they are Ready or Not, sometimes there's nothing like a Marvellous Change of sheets, although don't over smell the detergent or you might Tilt to Dizzy Heights.

Oh that would be right clever if I got the references.

References...or MalfunctiOniNg CaPS LoCk?

Or a secret code! only the capitalized letters spell something!

Beware RMONCPSLC!
Presumably from the fifth dimension.

Ramon Casper Slick?

I met a guy in the Philippines called Casper. He joked that it wasn't his real name, only his nickname, and it was given because he was relatively pale.

Back when Rosie O'Donnell was not yet famous, I found her funny. Especially when she'd do a bit about how she'd walk bare-legged in the sun, only for rude people to yell, "Yo, Casper, cover up, willya? I'm getting blinded by the sun's glare off those ***damn albino legs of yours!"

I'm not sure I ever found Rosie O'Donnell funny, but I did find hilarious the issue of Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit in which Rosie and Rush Limbaugh (or their obvious stand-ins) turned out to be the same person.

I should read that. Thanks, EDE.

After I stopped finding her funny, I'd get amused by Howard Stern's jokes about the size of her head.

I love watching short stand-up comedy videos on Facebook. Most of them have been quite funny. Or at least, mildly entertaining.

Back in the 90s, I watched so much stand-up comedy (mostly on Comedy Central and VH1) that I got oversaturated with it. I still watch it every once in a while.

Weirdly enough, with all this talk about stand-up comedy, yesterday I took out a biography of Robin Williams from the library!

Ah, what a great man he was.

I’ve been watching British game/panel shows on YouTube. I find Jack Whitehall funny and sooooo cute!

It's nice that people have different tastes. Although if we didn't we could hire ourselves out as a live laugh track.

Back when I watched those things, he was easily amongst the unfunniest ones there. He was trading on posh prep school dimness and not much else. That might have been enough to get him an award at Edinburgh. That's usually the path: Get a Edinburgh fringe award; get on a panel show; be nice to the production company that uses the same cast of comedians; shuffle through all the shows; do enough stand up in slack periods to put out a Christmas DVD and look to diversify; presenting/books/TV scripts etc.

Decent, early representation goes along way to getting the connections to get a career out of it. ( A quick peek at Whitehall shows his parents were an actress and a TV producer, so a good example) Radio is currently littered with people who I've not heard a funny thing from. But they're on the track, so I'll be hearing lots more from them regardless.

The good news is that the money from getting on panel shows allows the comedian to hire better writers. So, they can appear to get funnier as their career progresses.

I would like to be a comedian.

In my younger years, people would sometimes compliment me by saying, "Aw cleome you're so funny! You should do stand-up!"

I was on Twitter for awhile, a few years back. If ever anything persuaded me that the life of a comedian was not for me, it was watching the awful way the majority of those people behave online... not to mention their reliably awful politics. Feh. Give me a nice quiet fileroom and a bottomless cup of coffee any day.

The onscreen or on radio politics of comedians here is pretty homogenised. There's the odd left field one, but it's all about following that production company panel-go-round for the vast majority. There's some unnecessary hypocrisy about it too. Someone got away with an acid attack gag on a righter than centre politician. There was a stony silence and some nervous laughs in the room. But the person got a wrist slap at best.

But Jack Whitehall looks soooooo cute.

Jack Whitehall is younger than I am!

Well, who needs talent.



You'll find that the numbers of these "young 'uns" increases the older you get for some reason.

What a mind-blowing idea, that I never ever thought of before!

When I was about 28 my 5 year old niece asked how old I was. I replied “How old do you think I am?” She thought and said “83”. I neither confirmed or denied but asked how old her father was. He is 7 years older than me. She thought and said “19”

Chalk it up to lack of math skills rather than being cheeky, I guess

That was nearly the end of her father's time travel adventures.